Tableless web design (or tableless web layout) is a web design method that avoids the use of HTML tables, for page layout control purposes. Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to arrange elements and text on a web page.
The purpose of this guide is to show how a tableless 3 column ordered or unordered list can be achieved utilizing XHTML and CSS. The following example uses no tables and validates according to W3C standards. ... <title>Tableless Three Column List</title>